Man, I'm weak! I just can't help posting when I'm not supposed too. Maybe I should say I'm not allowed to all the time, eh? Maybe I should put a roll of barbed wire around my computer and post single brain celled infantry men with C-7 machine guns to prevent me from blogging, huh? Then you'd get your posts! Then you'd get your daily dose of Vitamin ME! Yeah, I may be torn to shreds and riddled with bullet holes, but I'd die trying to do what I'm not supposed to do. Cripes, I spend too much time on the internet!

But I love it! And it loves me! And our love shall not be denied…unless Michelle tells me "no," anyway.

At one point I was totally ho hum about Myspace, but just for kicks and giggles I decided to put one up and see what happened. I rigged it so that my gmail account would let me know automatically if someone was requesting to be my friend, and I'd be able to see who or what they were with just the click of a button. Turns out that every up and coming band wanted to be my friend; turns out that every 15 year old girl with a fetish for negligee wanted to be my friend; turns out that everyone with a gender-confusion issue wanted to be my friend. Oh, and Tom wanted to be my friend, too. He still wants to be my friend, and he keeps appearing in my inbox every now and then.

As it turns out, my first impression of Myspace was that it involved a never ending cycle of request and deny: anyone requests to be on your friends list, and you just keep hitting "deny." I didn't understand why I would want any of these people or bands on my friends list. I didn't know them and they didn't know me! I guess there's the advantage for them in getting new listeners and acquaintances, but I really suspect that they were just padding their friends list so that their ranking on Myspace increased so they'd get noticed more...Which I guess is the same thing.

So that's all I did with it for a while: deny, deny, deny.

Then one day I thought to check out one of my favorite bands ever, They Might Be Giants. They had a Myspace page, and I thought I'd request to be one of their 27,000 friends. A day later, I had my first friend on my list. I did the same for Weird Al and even found a Myspace page for Lost. Lost has a Myspace page...No kiddin'.

So now my friends list was starting to look like a fanboy's stalker list, so I kind of just let it sit for a bit. I wasn't doing anything with it, and the only purpose it served was to let me know what TMBG and Weird Al were up to.

Then one day a member of the Animation Forum community asked about everyone else's involvement with Myspace, and it turned out that quite a few of them had Myspace pages. Not only that, but after checking out their Myspace pages I realized that they were using them as networking tools to promote their art, web pages and businesses. They would use their friends list to promote themselves, and I discovered that it was just a matter of simply typing a message and clicking a button and everyone on your list would be informed of upcoming events you were promoting. Here were users with similar interests to myself using Myspace to their advantage, and promoting themselves in a group of people that are willing to accept the promotion and possibly share it with others.

I had to use this to my advantage!

After a quick revamp of the site, a revamp that's still in progress but changed enough to reflect its meaning, my Myspace page has become the official (if Shannon agrees) TILAH Myspace page. At current count, and just starting yesterday, I have 14 friends on my list with similar interests and a willingness to promote mine and Shannon's future webcomic. Awesome! Free advertising! Who could ask for anything more, Toyota!

I'm sure I'll still have to deny certain requests to become friends with some guys who are interested in dating me, but the point is that Myspace seems to be the ultimate networking tool. I'm pretty late getting on board with this thing, but better late than never. And the timing seems right for our upcoming launch.

So the question is: what does this have to do with my Alberta adventure? It's my adventure, and it's occurring partially in Alberta, so there! If we just happen to move back to BC (hint, hint), my Alberta adventure will be over. But for now it happens the way it happens, and I get to share it with you.

Oh! Lost was on last night; it was awesome! If you didn't know that then I suggest you check your pulse. Chances are that you're dead. Just sayin'!

Edit: I just noticed that Dan, Shannon and I are using our avatars for Google Talk...It made my beady eyes well up with joy: